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Nature 397, 284 (28 January 1999) | doi:10.1038/16760

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China clamps down on inaccurate warnings

Asako Saegusa

China has revealed plans to introduce tough regulations intended to stamp out 'false' earthquake warnings, in order to prevent panic and mass evacuations of cities triggered by forecasts of major tremors.The new regulations on earthquake information, approved last week by the Chinese prime minister Zhu Rong-ji, will require a "high standard of scientific reasoning" behind all earthquake predictions.